Greek characters from database

We are developing an e-commerce web site in Greek langauge. The problem is when we retrieve and display data in Greek language from database it converts the data into another form

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Data "Προχωρημένη αναζήτηση" from database is displayed as "?p?p???? ?a?a?t???st???"

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I am using following meta tag in header:

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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1253">

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Database is MS Access.

Without knowing more about your software, application and the way of implementation, you may first simply try to use utf-8 or utf-16 as charset.

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
or
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-16">

(while the first one should work well).

Basically you must check the path your data is being transferred from beginning step by step. Possible problems may be that the database stores and/or deliver the data in the wrong charset. If this is the case, you can't do much at the browser's side.